Updated: AOC Rants After WSJ Writer Says She Leads Young People 'To Take Pride In Their Ignorance.' She Ends Up Proving Their Point.

Ian Macfarlane

Daily Wire  "On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), furious that an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal stated that she “leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance—of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom,” sneered back on Twitter, writing, “I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.' ”

Well, reciting cliches and talking points beats informed speech any day. She had to go far back into history to get material. TD

"We learned this week that the Democrats' left and center are at each other's throats. Sandy O is making a list to see who is naughty and nice."

. . . "So where does this put all those "moderates" who ran to end all of the partisanship in Washington?  It does not help, to put it bluntly.

"It puts Speaker Pelosi in a tough place, too.  She is the speaker because of all of those "moderates," the many who promised not to vote for her." . . .

The never-closing Eye of Sauron searches the land

‘Ugly Racist Tweet’: Ocasio-Cortez Slammed For Promoting Bigotry 

When everything is racist then nothing is racist. The left has worn out any significance the word once had. TD

The Babylon Bee reported: Nation Breathes Sigh Of Relief As Ocasio-Cortez Comes Out Against Having Children  . . . "While the nation is typically baffled at Ocasio-Cortez's positions, her bold stand against having children has become her most popular policy position yet, garnering a 97% approval rating."

A Right Hook in Berkeley Revives Debate Over Campus Speech

Bryan Bernys, the head of the Campus Leadership Program at the Leadership Institute, accused the Berkeley campus of encouraging “a culture that fosters this type of horrible behavior toward anyone or anything that you disagree with.”

NY Times  . . . "The episode was only a faint echo of the brawl at the Berkeley campus in February 2017 when a group clad in black clothing and carrying sticks smashed windows, threw rocks at the police and stormed a building in response to a planned speech by the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos, causing around $100,000 in damage.
"In an interview Mr. Williams said he and the students he was seeking to train had made signs supporting President Trump and criticizing Jussie Smollett, the actor who has been charged in connection with his own assault in Chicago. One of the signs said, “This is MAGA country,” Mr. Williams said.
"Two men are seen in multiple videos of the episode approaching Mr. Williams, who begins filming them. One man points to the signs and accuses Mr. Williams of “encouraging violence.”
"A man is then seen pushing Mr. Williams, showering him with expletives and delivering a powerful right hook to his face." . . .

The arrest came on the same day that officials decided to reopen the investigation, which had concluded a week earlier  . . . "Williams, 26, who is not a student but is a field representative for the conservative group The Leadership Institute, was approached by two men who, he said, reacted with antagonism to the signs. One of them is said to have punched Williams several times. The recruitment table was knocked over and signs were ripped, according to a UC-Berkeley alert on its website. Williams told Fox News last week that his attacker also threatened to shoot him."

CDN

Zachary Greenberg: 5 Quick Info You Have to Know   . . . "Greenberg is now dealing with felony accusations. Right here’s what you must know:"
"1. UC-Berkeley Launched Greenberg’s Identify & Stated He was Booked Into the Jail
"2. The College Beforehand Revealed a Potential Suspect was Recognized & Stated He Wasn’t a Scholar
"3. Greenberg Is Accused of Punching the Conservative Activist
"4. Greenberg As soon as Labored for the College" (I have no idea what that just meant. TD)
"5. Conservative Activists & the President’s Son Raised Considerations In regards to the incident"

More here:
. . . 2. Greenberg Once Worked for the University

. . . "Some conservative activists were unhappy with how long it took to make an arrest. On February 26, 2019, Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, wrote on Twitter, “This attacker has not yet been arrested or charged with a crime. A hate crime was committed on campus at UC Berkeley and the attacker walks free. If the attacker was wearing a MAGA hat there would have been a nationwide manhunt for him. Outrage!”

"The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., also weighed in, writing on February 21: “When a liberal like Jussie cries wolf and fakes an attack he receives unmatched coverage, sympathy & support creating a tsunami of attention. When a conservative student literally gets punched in the face and it’s caught on video it barely makes a ripple.' ” . . .

The Devolution of Man

National Review

"You too may have noticed an uptick in the number of ads celebrating “girl power” during this year’s Super Bowl. To judge from my television, the idea entails women’s engaging in traditionally male-dominated activities such as beating the hell out of thugs in movies or tossing around a football in commercials. Because, as everyone in the real world knows, the average female is keenly interested in violent contact sports." . . .
. . . "So say the experts at the American Psychological Associa­tion, which newly defines “traditional masculinity” as a pathological state. “For some men,” the association explains, “sexism may become deeply engrained in their construction of masculinity.” . . . 

Sexism? You mean like this?

Feminism Seems Intent on Signing Its Own Suicide Note

"One Bad Social Experiment"

"Like trained seals, progressives took to the airwaves and their social media feeds to applaud and take aim at anyone with the gall to suggest that the increasing number of victories of trans-women over biological women may prove this direct competition to be a questionable idea.
"Hardly surprising considering establishment media headlines like ABC News’ “Transgender teens outrun track and field competitors but critics close behind” were par for the course when the very same concerns arose last spring as Miller and Yearwood medaled in the girl’s 100-meter at the State Open Finals.

"Just as they were when professional trans athlete Rachel McKinnon was crowned a women’s cycling World Champion last Fall. Or when trans female Mack Beggs won two consecutive women’s high school wrestling championships. Or when a top-ranked NCAA track and field athlete switched from male-identified to female-identified in the middle of his collegiate career and kept competing.

"Or when… You get the point." . . .

 . . ." Progressives are employing their typical empathy traps and cries of bigotry to force Americans, in nearly every facet of their lives, into participating in a series of experiments to test their latest baffling hypothesis: Gender is a social construct detached from biological sex. Men can be women and women can be men.

"Make no mistake, the experiment is a gigantic disaster." . . .

John Wayne, Frank Capra, and C.S. Lewis—Haters All!

American Greatness

"Mean People Suck.”

"I first saw that bumper-sticker slogan almost 20 years ago, pinned to the office bulletin board at the newspaper where I worked. It struck me as a little strange, much like what Jon Stewart called a “moment of zen.” Isn’t it mean to tell people they suck? Yet my progressive media colleagues who embraced the slogan certainly didn’t think of themselves as “mean.” They didn’t see themselves as a Mobius strip or a dog chasing its tail either, though such they really may have been.

"No, what the journalist who posted that slogan meant was: “Other people suck. The people I disagree with, the ones I disapprove of. They suck. They’re mean. Not like me. I’m not mean. I’m ‘woke.’”

“ 'Woke” hadn’t been coined yet, but when the word finally did appear, it walked right into that “Mean People Suck” meme and made itself at home. We’ve been watching the antics of “woke” people who aren’t “mean” and don’t “suck” for quite a while now. The best way to bring one out is to wear a MAGA hat in public. The results can range from hilarious to obnoxious to frightening.

"Another way to bring them out is to criticize the “march of progress.” Commit your thought crime to paper, and you can make the woke wax wroth even from beyond the grave. That’s what John Wayne did in giving an interview to Playboy magazine in 1971. The movie star best known for such classic Westerns as “Stagecoach,” “The Searchers,” and “True Grit” is now known in progressive circles as a bigot, a hater, “a total piece of shit,” because of the sentiments he expressed to Playboy. Sentiments such as:

Movies were once made for the whole family. Now, with the kind of junk the studios are cranking out—and the jacked-up prices they’re charging for the privilege of seeing it—the average family is staying home and watching television. I’m quite sure that within two or three years, Americans will be completely fed up with these perverted films.